Re: GAS documentation bug?

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Guys,

> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 08:40:15AM -0500, Jeff Frohwein wrote:
> > 
> > ARM7 GCC generated line:
> >    .section .text,"ax",%progbits
> > 
> > Or does @ have the same effect as %, even though @ is also the GAS 
> > comment character?
 
> Alan Modra <address@hidden> writes:
>
> @progbits is used on all targets except arm, precisely because @ is
> the comment char on arm.  I suppose the doco should reflect this.

A reasonable point.  I have applied this patch to update the
documentation.

Cheers
        Nick

2002-08-22  Nick Clifton  <address@hidden>

        * doc/as.texinfo (Section): Note that if '@' is a comment
        character then another symbol is used to prefix the section's
        type.

Index: gas/doc/as.texinfo
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gas/doc/as.texinfo,v
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diff -c -3 -p -w -r1.69 as.texinfo
*** gas/doc/as.texinfo  22 Jul 2002 19:04:28 -0000      1.69
--- gas/doc/as.texinfo  22 Aug 2002 20:07:49 -0000
*************** section contains data
*** 5099,5104 ****
--- 5099,5108 ----
  section does not contain data (i.e., section only occupies space)
  @end table
  
+ Note on targets where the @code{@@} character is the start of a comment (eg
+ ARM) then another character is used instead.  For example the ARM port uses 
the
+ @code{%} character.
+ 
  If @var{flags} contains @code{M} flag, @var{type} argument must be specified
  as well as @var{entsize} argument. Sections with @code{M} flag but not
  @code{S} flag must contain fixed size constants, each @var{entsize} octets